Tag Archives: grave

Nuptials

Posted on September 6, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Here, a plot of overgrown grass and conjugal motives– A desirously bowing limb decked out in pink and green, caressing the time-darkened stone of one who has passed from now to now-again… The enduring portrait … Continue reading →

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No Dominion

Posted on March 29, 2018 by John Biscello

It was about time, epitaph planned in advance– Will you dance with me?

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Mercy

Posted on March 5, 2018 by John Biscello

She, unmoving, has remained the same for millennia, mercy on a tether. As for the tombs, the plots, the names engraved on headstones, those are always different, change, the truest source of sorrow replenished.

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2-Sentence Horror Story

Posted on December 22, 2017 by John Biscello

Will you marry me, and promise to be mine forever and ever? Yes, she agreed, one foot in the grave, the other scraping forward.

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Stir

Posted on September 17, 2017 by John Biscello

Scraping grave remnants, the woman’s canceled bones stir– You will know my name.

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Enclosure

Posted on August 14, 2017 by John Biscello

She has held this position of constant sorrow for millennia, ennobling the grief of sundered hearts too human to bear openly.

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